Systems Design Engineer - Image Processing & Control

Cirrus Selection; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in defense technology is seeking System Design Engineers to work on pioneering laser directed energy weapon systems. Successful candidates will apply their expertise to develop complex systems design requirements, collaborate in a friendly, innovative environment, and have opportunities for professional growth. The role requires relevant STEM education and experience in electronic engineering.

Benefits

State of the art technology & innovation

External learning and development encouraged

On-site Medical Centre

Sports & Social Club

Qualifications

• Degree educated in a relevant STEM subject or equivalent experience.
• Experience in developing complex systems design requirements.
• Familiarity with Electronic Engineering and embedded software.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage system requirements for software implementation.
• Support technical mediation and communicate issues to stakeholders.
• Drive risk quantification and manage requirements flow-down.

Skills

Electronic Engineering

Embedded Software Requirements

Systems Thinking

Risk Management

Technical Communication

Education

Degree in STEM

Tools

DOORS

Rhapsody

Job description

Location: Bristol
Salary: Up to £55,000 P/A d.o.e. + benefits (plus Overtime, Flexi and Bonus)
Hours: 37 hours per week

Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be?
We are looking for motivated engineers to continue to develop a laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) concept into an air defence system!

Thus far the programme has been aimed at developing the UKs first Laser Directed Energy Weapon concept demonstrator, achieving significant success recently with several highly publicised trials activities. There are ambitious plans that involve parallel and interleaved streams of pioneering technology experimentation and rapid weapon system development, providing opportunities across the key weapon system domains of Systems Engineering: requirements, design, performance analysis and certification.

In particular we are looking for System Design Engineers to work on the Image Processing and Control subsystem.

Benefits of working here:
• State of the art technology & innovation
• External learning and development encouraged
• Light and airy university type campus
• Friendly environment!
o Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More

Skills Required
To be considered, you must:
• Ideally be degree educated in a relevant STEM related subject or equivalent with experience
• Must be familiar with Electronic Engineering requirements content, and experienced in handling embedded software or firmware requirements.
• Must have experience of developing complex systems design requirements, particularly for implementation in software.

As well as this, ideally you will have experience in some of these areas:
• Manage system requirements, verification and compliance evolution against a rapid system baseline release schedule
• Be able to generate detailed requirement sets on the basis of a variety of drivers and manage change over baselines
• Support system requirement flow-down through to design and implementation teams
• Initiate and drive risk quantification and mitigation activities as trade studies
• Have the ability to support technical mediation, communicating issues, architectures and ideas at all levels and to varying degrees of specificity
• Be a flexible systems thinker
• Have the ability to disseminate technical information to stakeholders in an understandable manner
• Have proven ability to deliver the required output with agreed timescales
• Develop excellent working relationships with partners and key stakeholders as well as team members and other departments
• Desire to develop, build and grow the Systems Design team and the people within it as the project develop
• Experience of system architecting tools e.g. DOORS/DOORS NG/Rhapsody is desirable
• Knowledge of lasers and/or optical physics would be beneficial
• Passion and persistence to get a job done and done well

You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role. This will require you to either be a UK Citizen or UK Dual Citizen. Some restrictions may apply.
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